Am Sonntag, 11. September 2005 17:42 schrieb Sonja Krause-Harder: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 11:04:53AM +0200, Marcel Volz wrote: > > But if we could have the srpms from SLES we could recompile > > them, use them for a openSUSE Server, > > Just for the record: the SLES 9 eval version available at > http://download.novell.com/ contains the full set of 6 CDs, two > of which contain the src rpms. To say SLES is not open source is > a bit far-fetched - but it is aimed at earning money with it, > that's true.
I don't say that SLES is not open source! I've already downloaded the evaluation CDs. I think i know sles well. I've worked with it since SLES7. Are there srpms for the updates, too? > What you pay for in SLES is exactly what you propose: additional > testing and bugfixing and several years of maintenance. If you > can find a group of people who can offer you this level of > maintenance, who can guarantee you that they won't disappear when > they find greener pastures, and are willing to do this on a > volunteer, unpaid basis, just do it. And if you find them on this > list, start a sub-project as has already been proposed. That's the point. As i've already written, i don't think that's possible for a group of volunteers. Even Debian, one of the biggest linux distribution has problems with it. As i've also already written, I think if there are more SLES there will be much more people/business which are intererested in and will buy additional services from Novell. And there is more benefit for Novell. But that's only my opinion. I don't want to criticise Novell. I think Suse has done a good job at their Enterprise Distribution. That's one point why i use it. Please go on with your good work! -- Marcel Volz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
